[margin georne] befæste . geðenc hwelce wítu ús ða be comon for ðís se worulde. ðaða
we hit nohweðer neselfe nelufodon : ne eac oðrum monnum nelefdon;
[margin hæfdon] ðone naman ænne welufodon ðætte we cristne wæren: ond swiðe feawa

befæste . geðenc hwelce witu us ða be-comon for ðisse worulde. ðaða
we hit nohweðer ne selfe ne lufodon : ne eac oðrum monnum ne lefdon;
ðone naman ænne we lufodon ðætte we cristne wæren: ond swiðe feawa

... commit. Think of the kind of material punishments which then descended on us, when
we neither loved it ourselves, nor even allowed it to others:
we loved the name alone - that we were 'Christians' - and very few

they did not imagine that men should ever become so uncaring,
and scholarship in such decline: they desisted [from translating] deliberately,
and wanted that there should be so much the more wisdom in this country by the greater number

of languages we knew. Then I remembered how the Law was first composed in the Hebrew
language, and afterwards, when Greeks learned it, then they turned it ...